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Should we use centralised services and endure all the constraints that accompany them, or should we instead use our own patchwork collection of tools, loosely aggregated socialmedia and handheld personal devices that give us freedom, but at a price? Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. Unported License.
If someone had called, I would have said that this is project has at it''s core a mistaken idea: that socialmedia and personallearning networks can be directed from the top down. It''s because these are individual connections created by the individual, and that is their value: they are personal.
During the conference opening sessions we brainstormed as set of grassroots global education projects that we could bring to our personallearning networks to try to get started. We voted on five project to to focus on right away with a set of basic questions for each: " What do you want to do?
I have written a lot about PersonalLearning Environments in the past, especially when they were emerging as a concept, and sounded quite new. We were all excited about the potential of PLEs, their subversive nature and their inherent informality. What is your experience of using PLEs in your own learning?
I first met Joyce at the first PersonalLearning Environment (PLE) conference in Barcelona in 2009 and we have been friends ever since. We were sat just a couple of seats away from each other, and were already friends on socialmedia. I also met George for the first time at the Barcelona PLE event.
I first met Alec Couros among that amazing gathering of people at the inaugural PLE (PersonalLearning Environment) conference in Barcelona, in 2010. Alec is very influential in the world of learning technology, and has a huge following on Twitter and other socialmedia channels.
I first met Graham at an event in the UK around 2006, just when I was becoming aware of the potential of socialmedia such as wikis, blogs and social networking platforms as a learning tools. I then wrote and published a flurry of papers on socialmedia and education, and around the same time I set up this blog.
I attended an event in Utrecht, in the Netherlands way back in 2007, at around the time that socialmedia was emerging as a serious learning technology. Together for two days, we discussed how digital technologies and networks could support learning.
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